A method or mixing magnetic particles with a liquid medium in a reaction chamber is provided, comprising providing an external magnetic field to the reaction chamber causing the magnetic particles to move, such as swirl or oscillate, etc., substantially on a plane crossing the reaction chamber; and simultaneously controlling the magnetic particles to have a relative reciprocating movement at a non-zero angle to the plane. The magnetic field can be provided by rotating or reciprocating a magnet or electromagnet array around the reaction chamber, or by coordinately activating at least two electromagnets in an electromagnet array. The relative reciprocating movement of the magnetic particles can be realized by moving the reaction chamber or the magnet array, or by alternately activating another magnetic field provided by another electromagnet array. An apparatus applying the method is further provided. The technology can be applied widely and has the potential for realizing true automation.

A method is taught for maintaining a fluid within a tank. In this method an upper data acquisition device is operated which is capable of obtaining at least one characteristic of the fluid in a tank adjacent to the upper data acquisition device. A lower data acquisition device is also operated which is situated below the upper data acquisition device, capable of obtaining at least one characteristic of the fluid in the tank adjacent to the lower data acquisition device. A data analyzer is then utilized which is capable transmitting a data packet to the intermittent mixer. The method then automatically turns on the intermittent mixer from the data received from the data packet. Afterwards, the method automatically turns off the intermittent mixer from the data received from the data packet resulting in the at least one characteristic from the upper data acquisition device is within specifications of the at least one characteristic from the lower data acquisition device. In this method the intermittent mixer is capable of altering the fluid within the tank so that the at least one characteristic is consistent throughout the tank.

An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.

An integrated system includes a desalination plant including a reverse osmosis (RO) array to produce an RO permeate blending stream and a nanofiltration (NF) array to produce an NF permeate blending stream. The integrated system also includes a blending system. Further, the integrated system includes a control unit. Still further, the integrated system includes an injection system for one or more injection wells that penetrate an oil-bearing layer of a reservoir. Moreover, the integrated system includes a production facility to separate fluids produced from one or more production wells that penetrate the oil-bearing layer of the reservoir and to deliver a produced water (PW) stream to the blending system. The blending system is configured to blend the RO permeate and NF permeate blending streams with the PW stream to produce a blended low salinity water stream. The control unit is configured to dynamically alter operation of the blending system to adjust amounts of at least one of the RO permeate blending stream and the NF permeate blending stream to maintain a composition of the blended low salinity water stream within a predetermined operating envelope.

An automatic mixing machine includes a vessel, a shell, a motor, a mixing unit, a detection and feedback unit, a computing control unit and a drive unit. The shell is connected with the vessel to form a closed space. The motor is arranged in the shell. The first end of the mixing unit is connected with the motor, and the second end of the mixing unit extends into the closed space. The detection and feedback unit is electrically connected with the motor and collects at least one electric parameter of the motor. The computing control unit is electrically connected with the detection and feedback unit and generates a control signal according to the electric parameters and the mixing parameters. The drive unit is electrically connected with the computing control unit and the motor respectively, and outputs a drive signal to drive the motor according to the control signal.

A gas-liquid mixing control system includes a liquid supply unit, a liquid pressure regulating valve, a gas supply unit, a gas pressure regulating valve, a mixing tank, an output pipe, and a non-electric control flow regulator. The mixing tank communicates with said regulating valves; liquid and gas are mixed in the mixing tank to form mixed fluid. The first end and second end of output pipe communicate with the mixing tank and the machine respectively, making mixed fluid output from mixing tank to machine through the output pipe. The mixed fluid in first end and second end have third flow and fourth flow respectively. Said flow regulator communicates with the output pipe; the mixed fluid passing through said flow regulator has fifth flow. The first flow is not lower than at least one of the fourth and the fifth flow. Additionally, a control method for gas-liquid mixing is disclosed.

The present invention provides an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus capable of reducing the possibility of intermitting supply of a UFB-containing liquid. An ultrafine bubble-containing liquid producing apparatus includes producing units that produce an ultrafine bubble-containing liquid containing ultrafine bubbles by using a liquid supplied from a liquid introducing unit and deliver the produced ultrafine bubble-containing liquid to a liquid delivering unit. The producing units include a plurality of ultrafine bubble generating units capable of operating independently. Each of the plurality of ultrafine bubble generating units is provided to be capable of independently switching between communicating with and being disconnected from the liquid introducing unit and the liquid delivering unit.

The method for producing a pigment-kneaded product includes a step [1] of supplying at least a pigment and a resin to a container provided in a kneading apparatus and a step [2] of kneading the resulting content (content (a1)) present in the container until a storage elastic modulus of content (a1) at an angular frequency of 1 rad/s, which is obtained by measurement of dynamic viscoelasticity at 25 C., reaches a range of 200 kPa to 30,000 kPa.

A system and method directed to the partial or full automation of recipe processing by an appliance is described. A recipe may include one or more of at least a portion of operating code, one or more appliance operation(s) or one or more action(s) to initiate operation of the appliance. A computing device may include a recipe processing application that generates a display on a user interface. The display may include one or more indications of the partial or full automation of appliance operations for processing recipe ingredients. The appliance is a blender in one example, and the appliance operations are for processing the recipe ingredients by the blender.

A system includes a source, a detector, and a controller. The source is configured to emit electromagnetic energy toward two plies of film. A portion of the emitted electromagnetic energy is within a range of wavelengths. The detector is arranged to detect electromagnetic energy propagating away from the two plies of film. The detector detects electromagnetic energy within the range of wavelengths and generates signals indicative of intensity of detected electromagnetic energy. The controller controls operation of the foam-in-bag system based the signals from the detector. The film is transmissive of electromagnetic energy in the range of wavelengths. When dispensed between the two plies of film, one or both of foaming chemical precursors or foam formed from a reaction thereof is opaque to electromagnetic energy in the range of wavelengths.